Day: November 28, 2017

October Kaggle Dataset Publishing Awards Winners' Interview

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October Kaggle Dataset Publishing Awards Winners' Interview

This interview features the stories and backgrounds of the October winners of our $10,000 Datasets Publishing Award–Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, Etienne Le Quéré, and Felipe Antunes. If you're inspired to contribute a dataset and compete for next month's prize, check out this page for more details.
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Immigration raids cause metro Atlanta businesses to lose money

Candles providing protection in jail are one of the store's best sellers. “All they're trying to do is have a better life.” The constant worry of not knowing—causing El Rosario to go from days of $2,000 sales, sometimes down to just $300 per day. “They go undercover, knock on people's door, acting like a
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Meredith Makes Claim There's Still Value in the Magazine Business

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Meredith Makes Claim There's Still Value in the Magazine Business

A month ago, Hearst Corp. succeeded in convincing Maria Rodale to sell her family's publishing business, which includes Runner's World and Men's
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Cyber Monday: Mobile sales poised to top desktop sales for first time

Board games, Fingerlings and Legos were best-sellers in Amazon's toy section. Over at eBay, one $745 Apple MacBook Air was sold every five seconds, the company said. And J.C. Penney said its top-selling items on its website were towels, $25 diamond stud earrings and a Liz Claiborne bag that has
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A life remembered: Lindy Saline 'hit La Crosse like a storm' of community activism

The book was an updated version of one he self-published in 1991 to help provide ethical guidelines for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
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Trade war heats up over Canadian newsprint sold to US

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Trade war heats up over Canadian newsprint sold to US

Stop the presses – U.S. paper mills are upset over what they see as subsidized Canadian newsprint being used by American newspaper publishers.
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Minnesota Historical Society CEO who pushed Native American initiatives is retiring

Elliott has worked in the field of public history for more than 45 years. … and collections, historic sites, educational programs and book publishing.”.
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Meredith to acquire Time Inc in $2.8-billion deal backed by Kochs

NEW YORK: A long chapter in media history came to an unlikely close on Sunday night with a sale agreement for Time Inc, the publisher of
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Waterstones to open five stores before Christmas

UK bookselling chain Waterstones will open five new bookstores before Christmas, including three that are named after their local area in the style of
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A botched sting with a phony Roy Moore 'accuser' was supposed to discredit the media. Like …

A failed effort to dupe The Washington Post into publishing a woman's fabricated account of underage sex with Roy Moore represents the latest entry
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Meredith: Time Inc. purchase will bring 'sizable chunk' of jobs to Des Moines

After two failed rounds of talks, the Des Moines-based publishing company pulled off the monumental purchase Sunday of Time Inc., a publishing
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Pressly resigns as Chronicle publisher for position at MSU

Stephanie Pressly, president and publisher of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and the Belgrade News, announced her resignation Monday to accept a
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Black Friday Shoppers Embrace Mobile, Set New Online Records

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Black Friday Shoppers Embrace Mobile, Set New Online Records

Top-selling products for the weekend included Google Chromecast, Apple AirPods, Sony Playstation VR, PJ Masks, Hatchimals and Colleggtibles,
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International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB) – Call for papers and participation!

ELPUB 2018 marks the 22nd edition of the International Conference in Electronic Publishing and the 10th anniversary of the meeting being held in
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MFA alumnus — out of options to treat his cancer — works to raise $500000 for clinical trial

Drews recently graduated from Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, after spending years working as a journalist in both Canada and Washington state. He finished the program in 2016, 13 years after receiving his
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Internal Server Error – While Publishing

Now when I tried to Publish my report on Tableau Server it gave me error with message 'Internal Server Error'(Screen Attached). Please someone let
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Denver author brings history to life

“It took about a year to write it but when it was done I sent out a manuscript to about 30 different publishers. Soon the rejection letters started coming in.” The manuscript was for a children's book and, instead of a straight out rejection letter, one publisher wrote to tell Wagner that they weren't doing any
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Thumb Up/Thumbs Down

Jesmyn Ward received the National Book Award in fiction for her recent novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. The award was announced at a ceremony in New York Nov. 15. The Tulane University creative writing professor joins William Faulkner, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, John Cheever and William Gaddis
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DIGITAL PUBLISHING ASSOCIATE

EdLab, Teachers College Columbia University is seeking a Digital Publishing Associate. EdLab envisions, designs, and pilots knowledge projects for
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U-Va. investigates sexual harassment allegations against English professor

The University of Virginia is investigating two complaints that an English professor sexually harassed female students in the school's creative writing program, according to a U-Va. document, with one recent graduate alleging that the award-winning writer inappropriately touched students on their
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Home Place reaches annexation agreement with Carmel

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Home Place reaches annexation agreement with Carmel

After 12 years, the City of Carmel has finally reached a deal to annex Home Place, which comprises 1,017 unincorporated square acres centered at
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RSD Black Friday 2017 – Best Sellers & What's Left!

RSD Black Friday 2017 – Best Sellers & What's Left! Thanks to everyone who came to see us on RSD Black Friday and Small Business Saturday!
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NouN improv: Providing App with laughter since 1999

Ever since 1999, the NouN Improvisational Comedy Troupe has been providing Appalachian State's campus with laughter. More than 15 years later the improv group is still performing on campus and provides students within the group with a creative outlet. Jimmy Briggs, a senior creative writing major,
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Katara documents history of musician Abdulaziz Nasser

Stemming from its keenness to enhance the Qatari artistic scene, Katara – the Cultural Village has published a documentary book titled The Musician … “This book is a one more step on Katara's pursuit of publishing documentaries that highlight the history and heritage of Qatar and underline the
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